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(No Model.) 2 SheetsSheet 1 W. T. BENJAMIN.

TIP SETTING APPARATUS.

No. 592,947. Patented Novr 2,1897

(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 W. T. BENJAMIN.

TIP SETTING APPARATUS.

No. 592,947. Patented Nov. .2, 1897.

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A I, Mw" C P K M10001 I V WM 1/ @MW STATES ATEN'F I/VILLIAM T. BENJAMIN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN W. DENNY, OF SAME PLACE.

TIP-SETTING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters mat No. 592,947, dated November 2, 1897.

Application filed February 27, 1897. Serial No. 625,874. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM T. BENJAMIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county ofEssex, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tip-Setting Machines; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to appliances by the aid of which tips may be accurately and expeditiously centered upon and secured to the vamps of shoe-uppers.

The improvements have for their objects, first, to center the upper upon a suitable support relative to a gage and a marking and holding device, then to mark the vamp centrally and hold it in position, at the same time bringing over it a guide, beneath which the tip may be'placed, and then to so place the tip and center and secure it upon the vamp while the latter is held in position. I thus combine the operations of marking the vamp and setting the tip, utilizing the holding of the vamp by the marking device as an aid in the setting operation with great practical economy.

The marking of the vamp, while a great advantage, is not essential to all the features of the invention.

In properly alining the tip a scale is preferably employed, according to which the outer corners of the tip may be quickly arranged in the same transverse line while it is being centered by the gage.

With such objects in view my invention consists in the parts and combinations thereof hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In order to make the invention more clearly understood, I'have shown inthe accompanying drawings means for carrying it into prac-- tical efiect Without limiting my improvements in their useful applications to the particular construction which for the sake of illustration I have delineated. v

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view on line I, Fig. 2, of so much of a tip-setting machine embodying my invention as is necessary to an understanding of the latter. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same with the marking and holding device removed.

tion, Fig. 2.

Fig. 3 is a plan View of the guide-adjusting mechanism with the table removed. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse sectional view on line IV, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a vertical longitudinal section, on the same plane as Fig. 1, but on a larger scale, of the table, vamp, and tip, showing the gage and'holding device in operation. Fig. 6 is a view of the upper with the tip applied thereto.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a table on which the vamp and tip are to be arranged, which table may be mounted on a bench, bracket, legs, or other suitable supports, (not shown B,'a centering means for the upper or vamp mounted and horizontally adjustable on the table; 0 and D, independent mechanisms connected, respectively, with the front and rear ends of the centering means to separately adjust the same; E, a gage mounted above the table and adapted to be lifted above the same, as seen in Fig. 1, and to be brought down on the same, as in Fig. 5, and F a holding device adapted to engage the upper or vamp, Fig. 5, and hold the same,- said device also serving to support the gage above the table and vamp, Fig. 5.

The gage E is preferably carried by an arm 1, fixed on a rock-shaft 2, the latter centered on pivot-bolts 3, mounted on the table. The arm 1 is normally held up by a spring 4 and adapted to be depressed onto the table by any suitable means-for instance, by a link venient reach of the operator. The holding device F is conveniently an integral downward projection of the gage E, toothed to more securely hold and mark the vamp.

6 is a central stop fixed on the table so as to' be engaged by the inner edge of the vamp so when the latter is placed on the table and arrest the same in proper longitudinal posi- The rearwardly-extending portions of the vamp then lie on each side of the centering device B. The latter comprises two guides or bars laterally adjustable on the table and connected with the latter by bolts 8, passing through transverse slots 9.

The mechanisms 0 D preferably consist of transversely-arranged rotary cams mounted beneath the guides on shafts 10, the latter being supported in bearin gs 11, fixed beneath the table. Each cam is formed with oppositely-inelined or right and left helical grooves 12 and 13, engaged, respectively, by pins 14 and 15, fixed in the guides and extending down through openings 16 in the table. The engagement of these pins and cams is preferably through the medium of antifriction-rollers 17, mounted on the lower ends of the pins. The shafts 10 are independently operated, as by milled heads 18, situated in convenient reach of the operator at the side of the table.

19 indicates a scale the lines of which extend transversely across the table where the tip is to be set, according to which the rear corners 20 of the tip may be set so as to properly aline the tip. 21 is a similar scale farther back 011 the table, according to which the rear corners 22 of a short vamp may be set when the side portions of the same are not long enough to engage the full length of the guide 13.

The operation of the machine is as follows: The parts being in the position shown in Fig. 1, an upper or vamp m is laid on the table against the stop 6, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The handles or heads 18 are then severally operated to cause the front and rear ends of the guide B to move out into engagement with the inner edges of the vamp, which movement will shift the vamp (if it be not centrally placed) into proper longitudinal alinement. The arm 1 is then caused to descend, engaging the vamp by the holding device F, Fig. 5, which at the same time is centrally marked by the holding device to facilitate its proper application to the instep of the shoe. The tip y, moistened on its under surface with paste, is then placed on the front part of the vamp centrally beneath the gage E, Fig. 5, and then slightly twisted in ahorizontal plane, if necessary, to cause its corners 20 to lie (according to the scale 19) in the same transverse line. The tip is then given a final pressure upon the vamp to fix it in its adjusted position and the vamp and tip removed.

IVhen the sides of the vamp are short, as indicated by the dotted lines 23, Fig. 2, it is centered by the front ends of the guide B and then alined by bringing its rear corners 22 into the same transverse line by the aid of the scale 21.

I claim- 1. In a tip-setting machine the combination with means for centering the upper or vamp, of a gage, an arm carrying the same whereby the gage may be brought down in line over the vamp, and means for holding the gage out of contact with the vamp to permit the tip to be centered beneath the guide.

2. In a tip-setting machine the combination with means for centering the upper or vamp, of a central gage, an arm carrying the gage whereby the latter may be brought down in line over the vamp, and a marker acting also to hold the front portion of the gage centrally over and slightly above the vamp to allow of the tip being placed and centered beneath the gage.

In a tip-setting machine the combination with means for centering the upper or vamp, of a central gage for setting the tip and a table provided with a scale for setting the outer corners of the tip.

at. In a tip-setting machine the combination, with means for centering the upper or vamp, and a central gage for setting the tip and adapted to mark the vamp, of a table having on each side of the center a graduated scale consisting of a series of transverse lines for setting the rear corners of the vamp.

5. In a tip-settin g machine the combination of two laterally-adjustable guides for the upper or vamp, a mechanism connected with the front ends of said guides for adjusting said ends laterally, a second mechanism independent of the first-mentioned mechanism connected with the rear ends of the guides for laterally adjusting said rear ends, and independent operating means for said mechanisms.

6. In a tip-setting machine the combination of two laterally-adjustable guides for the foxing or vamp, a cam mounted on an axis transverse to said guides and having two oppositely-inclined grooves connected respectively with said guides, and means for rotating the cam.

7. In a tip-setting machine,the combination with a table or support, of a vamp-centering device comprising a guide consisting of two separate bars or portions, a transverse rotary cam connected with the front ends of said portions, an independent rotary cam connected with the rear ends of said portions, and means for separately operating said cams.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

IVILLIAM T. BENJAMIN.

Witnesses:

II. N. Low, J. E. IIUTCHINSON, Jr. 

